Availability and Utilization of Biology Laboratory Equipment in Senior Secondary Schools in Zaria Educational Zone, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Abdurrauf I. R., Alhassan N., Jibril J.

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This study investigated the availability and utilization of Biology Laboratory Equipment in senior secondary schools in Zaria Educational Zone, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two objectives and two corresponding research questions. A survey research design was employed. The population of the study consisted of 13,634 which include 33 quality assurance personnel, 1256 teacher and 12345 students respectively. The sample size of 374 was used based on research advisors’ (2006) table for sample selection at 95 percent confidence level and margin error of 5 percent. Disproportionate sampling technique was used to allocate respondents to the existing strata; thus 30 quality assurance staff, 174 Biology teachers and 167 Biology students respectively were disproportionately selected. In addition, stratified simple random sampling was used to choose respondents from each strata. A questionnaire was adapted from the work of Auwal (2016). The questionnaire contained check list of Biology equipment was used in the data collection, the reliability of the instrument was 0.62. The study used mean and standard deviation to obtain overall average scores. The findings revealed that Biology equipment are available in senior secondary school, Educational Zone, but proper utilization in teaching and learning Biology is not frequent. The study made some recommendations among which are is the need for quality assurance unit of Zaria Educational Zone, Kaduna State to put more effort in executing their primary responsibilities of ensuring quality teaching through effective monitoring and on-the-spot assessment of biology teachers and facilities.


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